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Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming

By : Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi, Anuraj Parameswaran
Book Image

Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming

By: Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi, Anuraj Parameswaran

Overview of this book

ASP.NET Core MVC helps you build robust web applications using the Model-View-Controller design. This guide will help you in building applications which can be deployed on non-windows platforms such as Linux. In today’s age, it is crucial that you possess the ability to separate the programming and business logic, and this is exactly what ASP.NET Core MVC application will help you achieve. This version comes with a number of improvements that enable fast, TDD-friendly development to create sophisticated applications. You would also learn the fundamentals of Entity framework and on how to use the same in ASP.NET Core web applications. The book presents the fundamentals and philosophies of ASP.NET Core. Starting with an overview of the MVC pattern, we quickly dive into the aspects that you need to know to get started with ASP.NET. You will learn about the core architecture of model, view, and control. Integrating your application with Bootstrap, validating user input, interacting with databases, and deploying your application are some of the things that you will be able to execute with this fast-paced guide. The end of the book will test your knowledge as you build a fully working sample application using the skills you’ve learned throughout the book.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Building HTTP-based Web Services Using ASP.NET Web API

Generating HTML


As discussed in Chapter 1, Introduction to ASP.NET Core, browsers can understand only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, irrespective of the technology that you use to build the web application. This holds true when building the application in ASP.NET MVC as well.

Most applications get the user input, process the input, and then store the required information in the database to retrieve them later. In the context of web applications, Form HTML elements are used to get the user input.

The following are a couple of ways to generate HTML elements in ASP.NET Core:

  • HTML Helpers

  • Tag Helpers

HTML Helpers are server-side methods that aid in generating HTML elements, which can be understood by the browsers. HTML helpers were the primary method of generating the HTML elements up till ASP.NET MVC 5.

Tag Helpers, introduced in ASP.NET Core, also produce HTML elements. Tag helpers, which we will discuss in a later section of this chapter, will look just like HTML elements where you add attributes to...